In the 1903 Colorado legislature "H.B. No. 382, by Mr. Maroon, an act to
promote irrigation of the arid lands within the State by water obtained from
wells or sources other than the flow from natural streams."

John Joseph Marron, born Aug 3, 1857 in Clinton County, Iowa, died May 13,
1913 in Denver. Mary Ann (Crowley) Marron born Dec 30, 1858 in Iowa
County, Wisconsin, died Aug 9, 1929 in Denver - both buried in Mount Olivet,
Wheat Ridge.

Urban S. Marron's will was probated in Denver in 1951.

Raymond was a graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy and
obtained the rank of Captain and was the captain and commander of the
USS Aquarius in WWII, which was a troop ship that landed Marines and
Army Infantryman in the liberation of the islands in the Pacific
Campaign.

Awarded a Bronze Star during WWII; citation reads "As commanding officer
of a ship engaged in the landing of assault troops on Roi and Namur
Islands, Kwajalein Atoll, on January 31, 1944, and other operations, his
excellent direction of training for the operations and his efficient
execution of the missions assigned his ship and attached landing craft
contributed largely to the success of the naval phase of the eminently
successful attacks."

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Cyril Quentin Marron was born in Denver, Colorado, June 26,
1901. His parents were John Joseph Marron and Mary Crowley Marron,
now both deceased. His parents came to Denver in the early 1880s.
They met and were married in Denver in 1883. Lieutenant Colonel
Marron was their youngest child, the last of ten. He was a twin. His
twin sister, Irene, died of pneumonia in 1904, but alt the others
lived to grow up. His oldest brother, John Alexander, died in 1927.
The others, all living, are: Mr. Urban S. Marron, Denver; Mrs. J. B.
Ginn, Denver (Florence); Mrs. W. A. Wiley, Denver (Ethel); Commodore
Adrian R. Marron, U.S.N.A. '14, U.S. Navy; Mrs. J. P. Raddick,
Denver (Adeline); Capt. Raymond V. Marron, U.S.C.G. Academy '24,
U.S. Coast Guard; Mrs. F. C. Lebhart, Denver (Berenice).

After
going through the public schools in Denver, he went to West Point in
1919, where he was graduated in 1923 as a Second Lieutenant of
Infantry. First stationed at Fort Douglas, Utah, where he met his
future wife, he was next sent to Manila in 1925. In 1926, on
November 24, he was married to Miss Ruth Schumacher, of Yonkers,
N.Y., in his Navy brother’s quarters near the Cavite Naval Yard in
the Philippines. His bride, a graduate of Wellesley College, had
traveled to the Philippines to marry him. Shortly after their return
to the States, a daughter, Ruth Irene, was born on November 16,
1927, in Charleston, S.C.

First Lieutenant Marron was next sent to the Infantry School at
Fort Benning, Ga. After completion of the course there, another tour
of duty in the Philippines ensued, during which he had his first
encounter with the Japs. This was in Shanghai in 1932, where the
Japs had landed in force and were staging a miniature war with the
Chinese. Our 31st Infantry (Manila’s Own) was sent to Shanghai to
protect our nationals there. Lieutenant Marron was Assistant S-2 at
that time, and learned a great deal about the Japs. From this time
on, he was of the opinion that war with Japan was merely a matter of
time.

Returning to the States once more, in 1934, he was sent to George
Washington University Law School, in Washington, D.C. This marked
the achievement of a long-standing ambition. Hitler was coming into
power, and the world appeared to be headed toward conflict. Captain
Marron thought that some one with both legal and military training
would be valuable. He called it the "double focus” on world affairs.
With this in mind, he specialized in international and
constitutional law. He already was expert in military law.

In three years he managed to achieve both an LL.M. and a J.D.,
besides taking honors, and being elected to membership in the "Order
of the Coif”, the legal honor society. The accomplishment of all
this was no sinecure. It meant practically no social life or
relaxation, but of such is the stuff of ambition.

He was assigned to the Judge Advocate General’s Department for
duty, and sent to Omaha. But at the time that Hitler marched into
Poland, he announced emphatically that World War II had begun, and
forthwith began trying to be relieved of his assignment in the Judge
Advocate General's Department, and to be returned to the Infantry.

In 1940, Major Marron became Regimental Adjutant of the 10th
Infantry. In March, 1941, while he was a student at the Command and
General Staff School at Leavenworth, Kansas, orders came sending him
to the Philippines without delay. He sailed from San Francisco April
22, 1941, on the S.S. Washington, leaving his family behind, as per
orders. He was assigned to duty as Military Liaison Officer on the
staff of the High Commissioner, Francis B. Sayre. He was told that
no one else had his qualifications of military and legal background,
combined with his familiarity with the Philippines.

When the war started, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
(December 19, 1941), and assigned to military duty under General
MacArthur. Very little is known of his activities during the
fighting. He was on Corregidor part of the time. He had the
opportunity to leave with the High Commissioner’s staff, but chose
to remain. At the time of the surrender on Bataan in April, 1942, he
was commanding the second battalion of the 31st Infantry. It is not
known whether or not he made the "Death March", but it seems likely
that he did, for he was in Camp No. 1 in July, 1942. From there, he
was shipped to Camp No. 2, in October, 1942. This Camp was near
Davao, on Mindanao. All that ever was heard from him were four or
five form post cards headed "Imperial Japanese Army”, and saying
little. In June, 1944 he was moved to Manila and put in Camp No. 1.
In December, 1944, he was put on a Jap prison ship and started for
Japan. Our forces had already landed on Leyte and were preparing to
land on Luzon so this ship was spotted immediately by our planes and
bombed. We may never know how many were killed then for the Japs
kept no record. Some survived, only to die in subsequent bombings in
Formosa, or at sea from wounds and illness. The United States
Government has designated December 15, 1944 as the date of
Lieutenant Colonel Marron's death, and has awarded him the Purple
Heart Medal posthumously, “for wounds resulting in his death”.